Word(docx) OutputV6.5no-LT

Customers must subscribe "AH Formatter Word(docx) Output Option" to output Word(docx).
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Word(docx) Output is not available with AH Formatter V6.5 Lite.

Features of Word(docx) Output

Word(docx) is expressed in XML called WordprocessingML. WordprocessingML is an XML for expressing Word in Office documents. The XML of this Office document is called OOXML (Office Open XML) and is defined in Standard ECMA-376. The document models expressed by WordprocessingML and FO are very different. Therefore, we can not output all FO exactly as WordprocessingML. "AH Formatter Word(docx) Output Option" outputs documents with a relatively simple structure as WordprocessingML.

Restrictions

The following shows the known restrictions of Word(docx) output. There may have some other restrictions that are not listed here.

The docx output is available only from FO. It cannot be outputted from the area tree or HTML.

In WordprocessingML, basically there are only document structures of the paragraph <w:p> and the table <w:tbl>. They are only lining up under <w:body>. <w:p> can not be nested. In FO you can nest blocks arbitrarily, but they will expand to a flat structure in Word output. Therefore, the following nested borders etc. will not be the same as FO.

The WordprocessingML <w:tbl> does not have the ability to associate a table with its caption like <fo:table-and-caption>. Captions are generated independently from the table.

A table can not be rotated.

The border is outputted as one of the ruled lines that can be expressed in WordprocessingML. In Word, when the ruled lines of adjacent paragraphs (blocks) are the same, they are merged. It is not possible to draw the same ruled line independently in adjacent paragraphs (blocks).
Rounding Border,
Diagonal Border are not reflected.

Image formats not supported by Word are not reflected.

The background color and the background image of the first <fo:page-sequence> becomes the background color and the background image of the document.

The background and border specified in <fo:region-*> are not reflected.

As for superscripts and subscripts, the font size and the baseline are simply adjusted and its meaning is lost.

AH Formatter V6.5 performs complicated font processing such as ligature, and outputs it as a glyph in PDF. In Word(docx) output, any ligatures are not performed to leave such processing to Word itself, and it is outputted as a character string. The same is true for complex scripts.

WordprocessingML does not have a feature equivalent to <fo:inline-container>. Even if expressing a complicated document structure (eg a table) in <fo:inline-container>, only inline elements are retrieved.

WordprocessingML does not have a feature equivalent to <fo:block-container>. <fo:block-container> is substituted using a single-cell table. Nested <fo:block-container> is not supported. Columns specified in <fo:block-container> are not reflected.